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The Waters of Boston
May. 3rd, 2010 08:09 pmI brought a large empty Poland Spring bottle to work, which is in brave new Cambridge - it's nice that that city had the foresight to use a different reservoir and water treatment plant from the rest of Boston. Elsewhere, meanwhile, the water headless-chickenfest continues - police were called to one supermarket when a fight over water got nasty, and at least one shopkeeper's been warned after raising the price of bottled water to about $16. You'd think it was like Dune out there.
The water board site says that the leak has been repaired, they're now providing clean water to the system but it's going to take a while before it's fully tested and approved safe to drink again, and something about communities that are near the backup reservoir (which is next door to us) having to be flushed out... so there's no immediate threat to life or anything, but doing the washing up without running water is far more difficult than you'd think without trying it, so just now we're eating home made pizza off plates with "Happy Birthday" written on them.
In unrelated computer-related annoyances, Notepad++ has recently been popping up a window asking "An update package is available - do you want to download it?" every time I open it. After clicking Yes, it reacts completely indifferently and just starts up anyway without downloading anything. I suppose I can't fault the dialogue message - all it asks is whether I want to download the update package or not, rather than declaring any intent to actually provide one.
The water board site says that the leak has been repaired, they're now providing clean water to the system but it's going to take a while before it's fully tested and approved safe to drink again, and something about communities that are near the backup reservoir (which is next door to us) having to be flushed out... so there's no immediate threat to life or anything, but doing the washing up without running water is far more difficult than you'd think without trying it, so just now we're eating home made pizza off plates with "Happy Birthday" written on them.
In unrelated computer-related annoyances, Notepad++ has recently been popping up a window asking "An update package is available - do you want to download it?" every time I open it. After clicking Yes, it reacts completely indifferently and just starts up anyway without downloading anything. I suppose I can't fault the dialogue message - all it asks is whether I want to download the update package or not, rather than declaring any intent to actually provide one.
